Cars

Tesla now has over 600 sites in UK and EU for Supercharging

In the last few days, Tesla has crossed the mark for the amount of Supercharging locations it has in Europe for Tesla customers to charge up their cars. The company now has over 600 locations in the UK and the rest of Europe, equating to 6039 individual chargers. Tesla has achieved this in just eight years, which is impressive – with the first Supercharger in Europe in Norway back in […]

Jeep will be installing EV chargers at off road locations in the US

Jeep has announced last week that starting this spring, it will begin to start rolling out EV charing stations at certain off road trail locations across the US. This is following the launch of the new Jeep Wrangler 4xe hybrid, and whats quite good is that Jeep will be using solar or mains power to supply the electricity. Solar makes sense at a lot of remote off road locations, where […]

Volkswagen ID Buzz coming to EU next year and US in 2023

The all electric Buzz from Volkswagen is coming very soon to Europe with the US getting it a year later in 2023. Volkswagen spoke to Car and Driver this week who confirmed the news. Volkswagen will be launching quite a wide variety of models here in the UK and UK with a commercial vehicle version as well as a passenger van in different wheelbase sizes, short and long. Whereas the US will […]

Renault announces new hydrogen version of its Master van

This week Renault has announced the new Master ZE Hydrogen which will be unveiled later this year with an aim to go on sale in 2022. The company already has the Master ZE on sale, an all electric cargo van capable of around 100 miles on one charge, which for a large variety of use cases and businesses, that just isn’t viable and traditionally that is where a diesel van […]

BMW announces price of all electric iX SUV, starts at £69,000

BMW has announced the prices and more details about the new upcoming iX all electric SUV. The car will have up to 373 miles of range on the top spec version with dual motors, 100kWH battery and up to 500bhp. BMW is launching the iX with a brand new version of iDrive, with a 12.3-inch drivers display and a much larger 14.9-inch display for infotainment. The main screen is touchscreen, […]

Ford will be discontinuing the Mondeo in 2022

Ford has announced today that in March of next year, the Mondeo saloon and estate will be discontinued next year. No replacement for the UK and Europe market planned. In the last couple of years, sales of the Mondeo have dropped significantly with buyers drifting away from estate and saloon cars and into taller SUVs. Ford launched the iconic Mondeo back in 1993 with sales of the car hitting 86,500 […]

New Volkswagen Nivus to launch in Europe this year

Volkswagen is planing on launching the new Nivus SUV in Europe later this year, following on from its original launch in Brazil last spring. The Nivus is essentially the same size as the T-Cross, which itself sits in-between the T-Roc and the Tiguan. The Nivus is a coupe version of that car. Ralf Brandstatterm, head of the VW brand has said that the Nivus will be manufactured in Europe too, […]

Ford to launch fully electric Transit Custom in 2023

Ford is planning on launching a new all electric Transit Custom in 2023, which goes along with its promise to offer a fully electric version or plug in hybrid variant of every model in its commercial product line by the year 2024. To achieve this, both Volkswagen and Ford are partnering up and out of the deal, a fully electric Transit Custom and a fully electric Volkswagen Transporter will hit […]

Mini will be an all electric only company by 2030

Earlier this week, BMW CEO Oliver Zipse has announced that Mini will become an all electric only company by the year 2030, with the company’s last combustion only model to be released in 2025, then on everything new the company launches will be electric only. So far the company only has the new Mini E on sale, which went on sale in March 2020 with prices starting at £25,500 for […]

BMW will put the new i4 on sale this autumn

This week, BMW showed off the brand new final version of the i4, an all electric saloon car in a similar size class to the Model 3 from Tesla. BMW is now getting ready to put the car on sale, which it says is three months earlier than the company had originally planned. The BMW line of ‘i’ cars has been slowly expanding lately, back in 2013 the company had […]